Treasurer Scott Morrison yesterday announced a compromise deal in which plans to hit foreign backpackers with a 32.5 per cent tax rate will be dumped in favour of a 19 per cent rate for earnings up to ...

In the final fortnight of the parliament for the year the government clinched some deals on major pieces of legislation. The backpacker tax deadlock has been broken with a deal between the government ...

AIRLINE passengers will pay more for tickets to make up for revenue lost in the government’s U-turn on a backpacker tax. Treasurer Scott Morrison confirmed today the dumping of a Budget measure to ...

From 2017, Canberra applied a 15 percent levy for every dollar earned for two categories of working holiday visas linked to seasonal labour. In a landmark decision Wednesday, a Brisbane court ruled ...

TASMANIAN Senator Jacqui Lambie is going to have two bites of the cherry in an attempt to get the Federal Government’s backpacker tax reduced from the present level of 19 per cent. Senator Lambie will ...

Queensland Farmers' Federation President Stuart Armitage welcomed the last minute resolution reached by the Coalition Government and the Greens. "The entire backpacker tax episode will be remembered ...

Australia's High Court found that the country's practice of taxing young working tourists at a higher rate than local Australians for the same work was discriminatory on Wednesday. MELBOURNE, Nov 3 ...

TERRITORY farmers were left disappointed the issue of the backpacker tax was left unresolved in the federal budget last night NT Farmers chief executive Shenal Basnayake said some farmers would not ...

SYDNEY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison on Tuesday lowered a proposed tax on backpackers who work in the country after rural opposition that the policy would undermine the goal ...

The Australian government applied a 15 percent levy for every dollar earned for two categories of working holiday visas linked to seasonal labour Australia's "backpacker tax" illegally targeted some ...